The Newest And Most Entertaining Way To Teach Your Kids About Sex

When it gets down it, in some biologists’ views anyways, it is
all about sex.

Well, at least for much of the plant and animal kingdoms.

Every physiological adaption or morphological innovation comes
about because it enabled some ancestors to survive, but becomes a
trait of a species or a lineage because it gets passed on down
the line of descendants.

Hence, sex matters – although, everything else that keeps an
individual alive longer to have sex, or have more sex, matters
just as much as well!

My friend and colleague Dr. Carin Bondar has a new series out
for EarthTouch
TV, an internet environmental and science channel on Youtube
and also on their own webpage: EarthTouch.tv.

They have 21 series and it looks like how Discovery Channel and
Animal Planet used to be when they just aired science and nature…
but I digress.

The best part is that they are made for the internet. Short,
interesting, entertaining and to the point with only a short
commercial in the beginning.

Check out the first episode of Dr. Bondar’s Wild
Sex series below and use your own judgement about
appropriate age. It’s filled with double entendres but nothing
obscene.

I think it’s an exciting way to present science. It’s fun,
entertaining and filled with natural history. I think a teen and
young adult audience would really like this series and has could
have potential to reach audience segments that hard to reach for
more traditional science communication on TV.

The trick is to push is out there, but with EarthTouch as a
YouTube “TV station” the viral potential
is great. Sharing among social networks is super easy, you can
embed on your blog or website (like I just did) and discuss or
critique it, and the energy of the Carin and length of the
program is suitable for our ever-evolving short attention spans.

These characteristics are what sets Wild Sex apart from the
current crop or “me-cumentaries” – where the documentaries are
about the presenter and their journey and less about the
topic/animal/environment/issue.

While the presentation and subject matter might remain mildly
offensive to some nature documentary traditionalists and parents
who might feel queasy whenever sex is mentioned around their
children, those aren’t really the target audiences.